Wilbur Lucius Cross
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Wilbur Lucius Cross, Ph. D. (April 10, 1862 - October 5, 1948) was an American educator and political figure.
Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, he was a well-known literary critic and the Democratic Governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939.
Cross was Professor of English at Yale University and was also Dean of the Yale Graduate School. He was also principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut for a short time around 1885. Along with Tucker Brooke, Cross was the editor of the Yale Shakespeare; he edited the Yale Review as well. He wrote: Life and Times of Laurence Sterne (1909), and other publications.
Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut and the Wilbur Cross Parkway were named after him, as was the Wilbur L. Cross Medal for outstanding achievement in professional life, awarded by Yale.
Cross was an alumnus of Yale University (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889). He died in 1948 in New Haven, Connecticut.
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